So you are rude and critical of your neighbors?
Accusations of 'cherry picking' must be accompanied by proofs of misapplication of scriptures. You seem to think that you opinion is sufficient.
You seem to think your dream is sufficient.
Trotting out the commentators is a cop out,
Well, I actually appealed to 2 Timothy 3:16
6 All Scripture is
God-breathed and is useful for teaching,
rebuking,
correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be
thoroughly equipped for every good work.
If it isn't in there - and is mainly from some random dream from a random guy on the internet - well, I know what I'll be siding with!
as they could not know Gods plans for the end times. Daniel 12:4 & 9
You ever actually hear yourself? Your 'understanding' comes from your dream. The peer-reviewed protestant theological process compares scripture with scripture as God's all-sufficient word that can thoroughly equip us for every necessary thing - every good work. You criticise the peer-review process which involves training in Ancient Languages, Cultures, Audiences, History etc to understand how to approach God's word and not pluck bits and bobs out of context and come up with stuff from your own subconscious like you have.
You attack them when you're the one just saying "But I'm special! I had a dream!"
Can you HEAR yourself?
Really? Can you?
Just making out that the sun shining 7 times brighter, is a good thing and won't hurt anyone, is a direct contradiction of the context
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Isaiah 30:25-30, is plainly about dramatic events. We are given enough detail to know what will happen; the Lord will instigate a massive, earth directed CME that will virtually depopulate the entire Middle East. God's solution to the ME crisis!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
His people, every faithful Christian, who call upon His Name during this event, will be kept safe. The few Messianic Jews will take shelter in bunkers. Isaiah 29:4 The Lord will heal their wounds; that is forgive and redeem them.
Oh look - he plucked another verse out of context and inserted BUNKER into it! This is fun! I once thought of writing an apocalyptic novel called "Zac Steampunk" set in a post apocalypse Sydney. It was going to be like Mad Max meets Harry Potter in a fortified shopping wall. Seriously, I was doing evening writing classes and everything. I never in my wildest dreams thought of inserting my story all over the bible and forcing it to conform to my will! But good for you! You're going there. Just insert BUNKERS where-ever you want mate!
Back to the sun... this really sounds like a CME. Yeah, REALLY!
Isaiah 30
19 People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. 20 Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. 21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” 22 Then you will desecrate your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, “Away with you!”
23 He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows. 24 The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel. 25 In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill. 26 The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the Lord binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted.
They are repenting and being given rain, and the sun shining brighter is about the Lord's blessing, just like the Lord himself will be our holy light in paradise.
In a short while, the holy Land will be regenerated and will become as the Garden of Eden. Isaiah 51:3, Isaiah 35:6b-7, Joel 2:21-24
Whatever you say. You're the one writing this story. Does it have any actors l know, like the kids from Mazerunner? There was a CME in Mazerunner - surely for consistency you should use those guys?
In no way was Joel 2:28-32 fulfilled in the first century. There was a short time, isolated incidence, preview of that prophecy.
I'm not sure what you are saying?
Anyway, Acts 2.
Now I think you were troubled by these next verses? What if it is apocalyptic language that says "The Messiah will be slain and the sun go dark, and then the world will be in a state of disorder and chaos for a while but take heart - these are all signs that anyone who calls on the Lord and trusts the gospel will be saved?"
Apocalyptic language can be weird - but sometimes reading it literally is as wrong as reading Jesus as having 7 horns and 7 eyes.
19 I will show wonders in the heavens above
and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
20 The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
21 And everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
22 “Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. 23 This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. 24 But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.
See how Peter explains Joel as the gospel?
Joel and Peter remind us of the decisiveness of these last days by pointing to cosmic signs on earth and in heaven. The universe will reveal what a shambles sinful humankind makes of things by its constant assault on God's moral order. From this the human race should know that judgment must come at the day of the Lord (Is 13:6, 9; Ezek 30:3; Zeph 1:14-15). The hope held out by Joel is thus vitally significant.
And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved (Acts 2:21/Joel 2:32).
Today, living in a time of rapid social change, moral decay, environmental crisis and seemingly unmanageable economic and political problems, we can identify with the apostle's and prophet's sense of the end. We are comforted that history is not out of control, for God is constantly at work. We live in the time of the Spirit's life-giving presence—and there is the challenge: will we call on the name of the Lord and be saved?
Apologia for Pentecost: Ultimate Cause and Saving Significance (2:14-21) - IVP New Testament Commentary Series - Bible Gateway
